Also, keep in mind that exercising your arms is just part of the equation, especially if you have a lot of body fat. For the best results, you want to combine exercise with nutrition. Learn how to do that by visiting the link below:

This is partially true. While you can’t dictate where body fat comes off of first, you can make a body part look more toned. In this case, you need to exercise the muscles in your arms in addition to losing total body fat.

If you lose a lot of weight and don’t exercise your arms, they could still look flabby.

Push-ups are effective for arm-toning

Push-ups are a great exercise for working your chest and shoulders – depending on the distance between your hands. However, there are better exercises for directly toning your arms.

As a starting point, I suggest you sign up for my free course on how to get toned arms. The sign up box is on the upper right hand corner of this screen.

And the good news is that you do NOT need liposuction or plastic surgery to get skinny arms. The only time you should consider surgery is if you have reached a “critical point” of excess skin. Most women wishing to get toned arms, however, do not fall into this category. So make sure you try exercise and diet first!

Lifting lots of heavy weight is not an absolute requirement to get toned arms. A great starting point for you would be to sign up for my free course via the opt-in box in the upper right hand corner of this screen.

I am a young girl and I play volleyball all week long. I work out in the morning at the gym. If course my right arm ( My hitting arm ) is much stronger than my left. I have been trying to catch my left arm up but nothing seems to be working. Do you have any suggestions?

In simplified terms, the only way for this to happen is if the volume of work your left arm does equals that of your right arm. However, this may be counterproductive for you since you might have to sacrifice right arm exercise in place of left arm exercise. And I assume you want your hitting arm to get as strong as possible?

If this is not the case, just make sure both arms do an equal amount of exercise. Eventually, strength between the two will normalize.

I think my body tends to store difficult fat in my arms and I regularly work out using those bicep and tricep machines at the gym. I currently use the machines set to around 45 lbs and I’m wondering if I need to consistently up the amount I’m lifting or pressing to get thinner, more toned arms. Would you recommend upping the weight or doing more reps?

I would recommend upping the weight so that you work all your muscle fibers. This will help you burn the highest amount of calories. If you stick with light weights, you will only work a limited range of slow and medium twitch fibers.

i’m 44 female. i have tiny wrists and fat ugly upper arms, it runs in the family. just wondering how much of the flab can be toned; what’s the difference in flabby arms and lose skin on arms. my upper arms ar @15″, i’m very self conscience. have never been able to wear summer sleeveless anything. i hate it!

I pulled some tendons in my right arm about 18 months ago. I saw a physician and was told I had not torn any muscles – to ice it, use anti-inflammatory meds and otc pain relief. I did have some physical therapy which did help to strengthen and increase my lifting capability. Recently I have been doing gardening around my home, which is my usual summertime activity and passion. I have noticed a reduction in my right arm as far as weight capability and have been experiencing pain when I lift my arm. I have dumbbells which I am hoping to use in strengthening my arm/shoulder muscles. I do know that there is some arthritis in the shoulder/arm area so I don’t want to aggravate this also.

I am 61 years of age with osteoporosis, spinal curvature,& asthma but still want to be able to stay active despite my limitations.
Hope you can help.
asthma,

The best strategy here is to take things very slowly and avoid any activity that causes pain. I have arthritis and bone spurs around my AC joint (joint in the shoulder) and because of this I had to stop doing any type of upper body exercise for about six months. Then, I slowly started doing more and more. It’s very frustrating because you can’t move the way you used to. Luckily, my AC joint has healed very well and all my strength is back. But there were many times when I was too aggressive with my exercise and had to take a week off as a result.

For the arthritis you may want to take some Cosamin DS glucosamine by Nutramax. As always, consult with your doctor first!